Share your best ‘deal’

This weekend a reader posed the following question in her comment on another topic:

I can’t always keep up with your blog, so maybe you have already asked people to submit their most memorable “sale” experience at any time during the year.

It’s not always Black Friday that brings the “I gotta have it” beast out in us. The President’s Day sale at the original Cohoes Manufacturing (yes, in Cohoes) could probably become a book on human behavior!

Another source of stories could easily be the morning after Christmas sales at Macy’s, Pearl Grant, Filene’s and Lord &Taylor (get those decorations for next year).

However, much of your readership would have to ask their mom to share some of these experiences. Think of the experience… a mom and daughter opportunity to bond over a story about when the mom stuck out her foot to trip another woman reaching for the same 80 percent off cashmere sweater!!!(I just made that up.)

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I haven’t found any memorable deals during official holiday sale, but I have found a few very memorable deals over the years. Two years ago I found a $2000 Dana Buchman suit at TJ Maxx for $150 – it was the only one in the store and just happened to be in my size. Around that same time I bought an original-one of a kind gold/diamond pin from a local jewelry designer I used to work for on Ebay for $125 – original retail was $1200. This year bought a $6500 ring from the same designer on Ebay for $330.

I don’t want to ruin the “mood”, but when my father passed away six days prior to Xmas, he and I had talked about what he wanted to give my Mom. We totally didn’t expect his death, so prior to his death, we had talked about Mother rings. I called Hannoush Jewelers where I had started looking at rings, and they had the ring done for me in twenty-four hours to be able to leave on the mantle for my Mom. It took her the entire day to open the ring, she finally did at midnight and I was glad to share those tears and memories with her.

Awww.. BAR I am so sorry for your loss. However, as sad as that story started out the ending was great. Im glad you were able to get her the ring. I think my most memorable Holiday sale moment would be moment would be…my first Black Friday I was completely unprepared for how crazy it actually gets. My cousin and I were looking for a specific T.V that was supposed to be on sale and when we found where they were there was a lady like laying on top of them… yelling at people for taking any, apparently she had called dibs on all 25 of them.